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By Tiffany Gates on March 18, 2015 Posted in Civil Procedure,Recent DecisionsCivil Code section 3291 provides that if the plaintiff in a personal injury action makes a Code of Civil Procedure section 998 offer to compromise which the defendant does not accept, and the plaintiff obtains a more favorable judgment, “the judgment” shall bear interest at the legal rate of 10 percent per annum calculated from… Continue Reading